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U.S., Kuwait ask why barrageing went terribly unlawfulWASHINGTON-- A team of Kuwaitiand U.S. investigators sortedthrough evidence on Tuesday tryingto learn how and why a U.S. Navyjet dropped a 500-pound bomb nearobservers at a training range, killingsix of them. The F/A-18 Hornet was taking partin a twice-yearly training flight onMonday when the cam strokehappened. The training flights have been aregularly scheduled part of thePersian Gulf area militaryexperience for 10 years -- since a international force repelled an Iraqiinvasion of Kuwait and pledged to keep the tiny oil-rich nation safe in theaftermath. But on Monday, aroundthing went wrong. A Navy pilot practicing "close melodic phrasesupport" for ground troops suddenly dropped croak ordnance near anobservation area, according to the U.S. Central Command. The blast killed five Americans and a New Zealander, 27-year-old actingMaj. John McNutt. The names of the five Americans killed have not beenreleased. Five othe r Americans and two Kuwaitis were injured. Two of the injured have already been released, and some of the injuredAmericans were evacuated to a U.S. airbase in Germany. Central Command appointed an investigation board to arrive later this weekin Kuwait, where U.S. and Kuwaiti officials were already trying to learnwhether the error that led to the accident came about in the air -- the pilotsmistake -- or somewhere on the ground, either from faulty direction for airtraffic controllers or a tragic miscommunication that put the observers inthe line of fire. "We will work hard to take care of the families involved, and to find out how much(prenominal) an accident could occur," U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H.Rumsfeld said in a statement. It shouldnt happenMeanwhile, New Zealand PrimeMinister Helen Clark pressed foranswers into the death of hercountrys soldier. "We dont, in the normal course ofevents, conduct to have people comehome in body bags," she said. "Its a terr ible tragedy and ... we arenow looking for an urgent, detailedexplanation as to how such atraining exercise can go so terriblywrong," said New Zealand DefenseMinister Mark Burton. "This was alive bomb basically dropped on observers. It shouldnt happen and we allneed to know precisely what went wrong." Kuwaiti defense chief of staff Lt. Gen. Ali al-Muaman apologized for theincident, pledged a staring(a) investigation, and said that the accident wouldnot stop further joint military exercises in the region. U.S. President George W. Bush, speaking in Florida, also offeredcondolences and led a second of silence before a speech promoting histax cut. Second Navy accident in a month